Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Shell Script question
Keywords: shell script
Message-ID: <705@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 90 00:00:01 GMT
References: <4571@ibmpa.UUCP> <1990Mar21.170124.1365@holos0.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Mar21.170124.1365@holos0.uucp> lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed) writes:

| For some stupid reason SCO never incorporated this convention into either
| their csh or Bourne shell.  It would be nice to tag awk, perl, sed, etc.
| scripts this way.

  I seem to recall that this is in the kernel, a fair reason for not
adding it to a shell. I thought that there was a convention that looked
something like
	:uses /bin/awk
at the start of a script which WAS recognized, but I can't get it to
work now, so I may be dreaming.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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